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Women MPs  have called out the online harassment they endure.

‘Horribly, sexually violent’: How Australia’s women leaders deal with rising abuse

Women across the political spectrum are calling out the harassment that spreads online and spills into real life.

  • Brittany Busch

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Housing Minister Clare O’Neil this week.

O’Neil reads riot act to agency as Labor seeks to keep housing probe secret

Coalition frontbencher Andrew Bragg has labelled Housing Australia, the embattled agency overseeing the $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund, a “dysfunctional hellhole”.

  • Paul Sakkal
Housing Australia chair Carol Austin has resigned.

Housing Australia chair resigns before parliamentary grilling

Carol Austin was cleared of breaching the code of conduct at the organisation, but a review last year found “concerning organisational challenges”.

  • Paul Sakkal
Housing Minister Clare O’Neil speaks at WoMEDA’s West of Melbourne summit.

‘Segregated’ city: The west alone can’t shoulder housing boom, minister warns

Housing Minister Clare O’Neil says wealthier inner and middle suburbs must accept new housing as Wyndham, Melton and Brimbank have done the “heavy lifting”.

  • Annika Smethurst
Housing Minister Clare O’Neil in Question Time this week.

Labor’s housing agenda in crisis amid complaints, resignations

A senior whistleblower says a slew of top executives at the agency in charge of Labor’s housing agenda quit amid claims of bad behaviour.

  • Paul Sakkal
The government is fast tracking assessments to push more housing into the construction pipeline.

AI and a new ‘strike team’ deployed to combat housing crisis

The federal government will fast track the assessment of 26,000 homes held up by delays in the environmental approval process as it tries to meet its targets.

  • Nick Newling
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Minister for Communications and Minister for Sport Anika Wells, Minister for Housing, Minister for Homelessness and Minister for Cities Clare O’Neil and Minister for Education Jason Clare as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks at the start of a Cabinet meeting, at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday 26 May 2025. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Housing minister, roundtable keen to take red pen to 3000-page building code

 Business bosses, unions and ministers have agreed Australia must strip away red and green tape to speed up home construction, as momentum builds to overhaul Australia’s complex building code. 

  • Paul Sakkal, Shane Wright, Millie Muroi and Brittany Busch
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Federal Minister for Housing Clare O’Neil and Federal Member for Jagajaga Kate Thwaites tour a Housing Australia Future Fund building site at Rosanna in Melbourne, Tuesday, August 12, 2025. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett) NO ARCHIVING AFR

‘Ridiculous regulation’: Labor makes housing central to economic summit

As new data reveals homeownership becoming a more distant dream, slashing housing red tape is firming as an area in which new policies will follow Labor’s economic roundtable.

  • Paul Sakkal and Shane Wright
While the average home value in NSW remains the highest at $1.25 million, Queensland has overtaken the ACT.

Average Australian home value passes record $1 million

Despite growth in the number of residential homes and a slowdown in price growth, the value of Australian homes across all states climbed in the first three months of the year.

  • Millie Muroi and Shane Wright
Housing Minister Clare O’Neil.

O’Neil says she’s not a YIMBY, but here’s how she plans to help fix the housing shortage

Housing Minister Clare O’Neil says axing red tape would mean faster building as Labor is on track to fall short of its target to build 1.2 million homes by the end of the decade.

  • Paul Sakkal and Shane Wright